Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Books: The History and Future of ReadingReports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which...
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in EnglishNow, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make...
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Writing a Woman's LifeIn this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers of celebrated authors...
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The Wild Duck and Hedda GablerIn Michael Meyer's fluent, idiomatic translations, The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler stand as masterpieces of naturalist drama.Author: Henrik Johan IbsenPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 08/01/1997Pages: 258Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.54w x 0.70dISBN: 9780393314496
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Red Gold"Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years."--Time Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow....
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Monster Verse: Poems Human and InhumanMonster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest...
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The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen KingThe myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe. The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King's novels, short stories, motion pictures,...
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The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and Literature"In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that does not conform to Eurocentric notions of beauty. . . . it brings to black studies and...
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A Poet's Guide to PoetryIn A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal...
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The Pooh PerplexIn this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the casebooks often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh...
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Children's LiteratureThis Very Short Introduction provides a lively and comprehensive discussion of children's literature--what it is, why it is interesting, how it contributes to culture, and how it is studied as literature. Reynolds provides a general overview of the history of the subject as it...
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Natural History: A SelectionPliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether...
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927A repackaged edition of the revered author's diary from his early twenties--a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.While serving his country in the Great War, C. S. Lewis' the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, and...
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In a Dark Wood: A MemoirOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident--in one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father.In the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi...
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Marvel Comics: The Untold StoryThe defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America's history -- Marvel Comics - and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. "Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes...
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Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts RevisitedTaking its cues from Richard Walsh's influential 2007 book, The Rhetoric of Fictionality, Fictionality and Literature sets out to examine the implications of a rhetorical understanding of fictionality. A rhetorical approach understands fictionality and nonfictionality not as binary opposites but as different means to...
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Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and BeyondThe first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power. Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" From...
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After the 8-BallReply hazy, try again. All the poems in After the 8-Ball want answers, and so have thrown themselves at the mercy of a black plastic 8-Ball filled with dark blue alcohol and a tiny twenty-sided die. Love, loss, and Lake Michigan feature prominently in...
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Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other PuzzlesIn Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare's plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci--from dealing with passages and key...
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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings, you'll get a never-before-seen look at the man, the artist, and the believer behind some of the world's most beloved stories.Join bestselling author Mark Horne as he explores lasting impact of the kind of creative...
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